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Sian Gibson
Sian Gibson (née Foulkes; born 1976) is a Welsh comedy actress and television writer. She co-wrote and co-starred in the sitcom Peter Kay's Car Share, alongside Kay, for which she won the 2016 BAFTA TV Award for Best Scripted Comedy and the National Television Award for Best Comedy.
Between 2017 and 2024, Gibson appeared as Gemma in 11 original UKTV films from the Murder on the Blackpool Express and Murder, They Hope series. She co-wrote and co-starred in the Royal Television Society's North West award-winning show The Power of Parker, and later joined the cast of Mammoth.
Gibson was born and raised in Mold, Flintshire, Wales. Her father was a builder and her mother a housewife. She joined the local youth theatre in Theatr Clwyd. She studied performing arts at the University of Salford, where she met fellow students – and future stand-up comedians – Peter Kay and Steve Edge.
After gaining a HND for Media Performance, Gibson quickly got an agent. She had a series of small credits in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including Peak Practice, Hospital People and Emmerdale. She played Tessie Thompson in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks during 1998 and 1999, returning in autumn 2007 for four further appearances. Gibson also played Trish in a trio of episodes of The League of Gentlemen.
More work came her way alongside Kay, including "The Services" episode of Channel 4's Comedy Lab, the "Eyes Down" episode of That Peter Kay Thing – and then a role as Young Mary in three episodes of Phoenix Nights. There were also cameos in Kay's music video for the Texas song "Sleep", as well as the Geraldine McQueen song "Once Upon a Christmas Song" as her Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice character, Wendy.
Outside of those jobs with Kay, aside from "parts which were three lines", other roles seemed elusive, with Gibson saying acting had largely "run its course" towards the middle of the 2000s.
The struggle for acting work was "soul-destroying" and, with a mortgage to pay, Gibson moved to Mold, north Wales, with husband Ian and their daughter, Gracie. She worked at a call centre for Card One Banking, where her co-workers had little idea she had previously been an actress.
"I hit 30 and had to stop ... I started temping in a bank. Peter [Kay] was always really supportive and put me in his stuff, but I wasn’t getting much else. One day, I found myself thinking: I haven't had an audition or casting call for so long, and I looked at my agent's website and I wasn't on it any more. I thought: that's sad. But I accepted it. I'd always wanted to act but I wasn't from an acting family. My dad was a builder, and my mum had worked in a factory. So I got married and was working in a call centre in north Wales."
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Sian Gibson
Sian Gibson (née Foulkes; born 1976) is a Welsh comedy actress and television writer. She co-wrote and co-starred in the sitcom Peter Kay's Car Share, alongside Kay, for which she won the 2016 BAFTA TV Award for Best Scripted Comedy and the National Television Award for Best Comedy.
Between 2017 and 2024, Gibson appeared as Gemma in 11 original UKTV films from the Murder on the Blackpool Express and Murder, They Hope series. She co-wrote and co-starred in the Royal Television Society's North West award-winning show The Power of Parker, and later joined the cast of Mammoth.
Gibson was born and raised in Mold, Flintshire, Wales. Her father was a builder and her mother a housewife. She joined the local youth theatre in Theatr Clwyd. She studied performing arts at the University of Salford, where she met fellow students – and future stand-up comedians – Peter Kay and Steve Edge.
After gaining a HND for Media Performance, Gibson quickly got an agent. She had a series of small credits in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including Peak Practice, Hospital People and Emmerdale. She played Tessie Thompson in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks during 1998 and 1999, returning in autumn 2007 for four further appearances. Gibson also played Trish in a trio of episodes of The League of Gentlemen.
More work came her way alongside Kay, including "The Services" episode of Channel 4's Comedy Lab, the "Eyes Down" episode of That Peter Kay Thing – and then a role as Young Mary in three episodes of Phoenix Nights. There were also cameos in Kay's music video for the Texas song "Sleep", as well as the Geraldine McQueen song "Once Upon a Christmas Song" as her Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice character, Wendy.
Outside of those jobs with Kay, aside from "parts which were three lines", other roles seemed elusive, with Gibson saying acting had largely "run its course" towards the middle of the 2000s.
The struggle for acting work was "soul-destroying" and, with a mortgage to pay, Gibson moved to Mold, north Wales, with husband Ian and their daughter, Gracie. She worked at a call centre for Card One Banking, where her co-workers had little idea she had previously been an actress.
"I hit 30 and had to stop ... I started temping in a bank. Peter [Kay] was always really supportive and put me in his stuff, but I wasn’t getting much else. One day, I found myself thinking: I haven't had an audition or casting call for so long, and I looked at my agent's website and I wasn't on it any more. I thought: that's sad. But I accepted it. I'd always wanted to act but I wasn't from an acting family. My dad was a builder, and my mum had worked in a factory. So I got married and was working in a call centre in north Wales."
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